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This act at the same time bring to the limit of his own fame, highlighting her completely animated character, like the book element comics of our everyday perceptions. Self-portrait he called 'The Shadow', and it regains consciousness in the past, like a scene from childhood, when you listen to the radio voice of a superhero and a fantastic way are identified themselves with this voice. His self-portraits were injected his personality into the sphere of popularity and fame, giving the public a product to fuel the imagination. They freed him, his image was separated from the body. Warhol liked to find ways to dispose of his body as he like. Warhol's interest to the characteristic of our society and the embodiment of objectification, and his desire to deal with this embodiment with regard to his personality consistently manifest not only in his portraits, but in the rest of his work, which is open elects product as its subject: this says his work in advertising, his early paintings in the style of Pop Art, depicting consumer goods, the later series 'Advertisements' and others.

In 'Before and After "(1960) clearly visible line between the' personification 'of portraits of Warhol and the aesthetics of the object of consumption, which ensure advertising and consumption. Considering the 'Before and after' in the context of interest to the author's portrait, the work becomes an allegory for his portraits and impersonation, which is contained in it. As such, this work may well be the advertisement appears to offer services as a portrait of Warhol. Of course, advertising c proposal to change the shape of the nose reflects the characteristic of the paradigmatic mode of ad standard promises that give all the goods – a new face, an improved version of yourself. As a consumer and supporter samoprozvannogo cosmetic surgery and his own portrait services, he well knew temptations of dentures, a public entity.